Sentences with phrase «democrat life peer»

Liberal Democrat life peer Trevor Smith sets out the implications of 5 May for his party.

Included in the announced list were new «working peers»: 31 new Labour life peers recommended by Tony Blair to reduce the Tory majority; Paddy Ashdown, the Liberal Democrat leader, recommended 11 new Liberal Democrat life peers; five were recommended by William Hague, the new Conservative Leader.

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Carlile was created a life peer in 1999, as Baron Carlile of Berriew, of Berriew in the County of Powys, having previously been a Liberal Democrat Member of Parliament for Montgomeryshire from 1983 to 1997; he had stood unsuccessfully as a Liberal for East Flintshire in February and October 1974.

On 2 February 2011, he was created a life peer as Baron Stephen, of Lower Deeside in the City of Aberdeen, [14] and was introduced in the House of Lords on 7 February 2011, [15] where he sits on the Liberal Democrat benches.

The Liberal Democrats currently have 101 peers but only eight MPs, while the Conservative Party, which has an overall majority in the Commons, has has fewer life peers than the Labour Party.

In the UK, Sebastian (now Lord) Coe went from leading track - and - field athlete to Conservative politician and life peer in the House of Lords, while former Liberal Democrat leader Menzies Campbell was once known as «the fastest white man on the planet» and held the British 100m record.